Open Peer Commentary
Martin Frederick Gardinera1
a1 Center for the Study of Human Development, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912. Martin_Gardiner@brown.edu
Abstract
Existence of similarities of overall brain activation, specifically during emotional and other common psychological operations (discussed by Lindquist et al.), supports a proposal that emotion participates continuously in dynamic adjustment of behavior. The proposed participation can clarify the relationship of emotion to musical experience. Music, in turn, can help explore such participation.
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The brain basis of emotion: A meta-analytic review Kristen A. Lindquist, Tor D. Wager, Hedy Kober, Eliza Bliss-Moreau and Lisa Feldman Barrett Department of Neurology, Harvard Medical School/Massachusetts General Hospital/Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Charlestown, MA 02129, and Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138.
lindqukr@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu http://www.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/~lindqukr/; Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309.
tor.wager@colorado.edu http://www.psych.colorado.edu/~tor/; Department of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06519.
hedy.kober@yale.edu http://medicine.yale.edu/psychiatry/people/hedy_kober.profile; California National Primate Research Center, University of California, Davis, CA 95616, and Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of California, Davis, CA 95616.
eblissmoreau@ucdavis.edu http://www.elizablissmoreau.com/EBM/home.html; Department of Psychology, Northeastern University, Boston, MA 02115, and Departments of Radiology and Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School/Massachusetts General Hospital/Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Charlestown, MA 02129.
l.barrett@neu.edu http://www.affective-science.org/
